Question

Simple question: Why this 2 fonts looks different at photoshop and at website.

At this picture – this first text is from html code, second is an image from photoshop. The same font, the same size – 30. But this first looks more “bold” than second. Why? I want to have a identically font as it is at photoshop (second picture).

Here css code:

@font-face {
font-family: "SegoeWP";
src: url("fonts/play/SegoeWP.eot");
src: url("fonts/play/SegoeWP.eot?#iefix")
         format("embedded-opentype"),
     url("fonts/play/SegoeWP.woff") format("woff"),
     url("fonts/play/SegoeWP.ttf") format("truetype"),
     url("fonts/play/SegoeWP.svg#PlayRegular") format("svg");
font-weight: lighter;
}

#strona {
  width: 1120px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

#Section1 
{
      font-family: "SegoeWP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
      font-size: 30px; 
}



header, footer, article, section, hgroup, nav, figure {
    display: block;
}


 body {
  font-family: "SegoeWP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
  background-image:url('background.jpg');
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: top center;
  color: #ffffff;

 }

And html code.

  <section id="Section1">  { mywebsite.NET } </section>
  <img src="mojeportfolio.png" />

any ideas? Greetings!

MORE

i found, that I have 3 types of SegoeWP font in folder. “SegoeWP”, “SegoeWP-Light”, “SegoeWP-Semibold”. “SegoeWP” looks a litle bit too “bold”, but this “SegoeWP-Light” is perfect and looks identical as in photoshop when i doubleclick it. How can I use it on my website? When I change this part -> url(“fonts/play/SegoeWP-Light.*”), nothing change at website. What is wrong?

Answer 1

photoshop handles fonts a lot differently than a web browser … because photoshop used functions like smoothing, kernel and others the font will almost always look different in a browser